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- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
granted. But 100 years ago, they were fresh recruits in the inexorable march of industrial capitalism. In a grand experiment to turn management into a legitimate profession, universities invented the modern business school. Questions... View Details
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
around the world. They are so different in culture-- Virginia and China, no connection there, really. And then later on, Switzerland, Italy, France, Spain-- everywhere I go, you find humans, cultures, across such geographies use the same methods to View Details
- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
for fresh fruit and vegetables and a third-party certification system to monitor compliance. By 2008, the GLOBALGAP standard had expanded to cover coffee, tea, livestock, and aquaculture. Over 90,000 View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
large food brands have earned accolades for recent decisions to eliminate GMOs from their supply chain. It was into this market that Haven Baker (MBA 2009), Simplot’s VP of plant sciences, launched the first direct-to-consumer produce... View Details
- 05 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference Across Borders
to Latin America. “In Latin America, only 6% of the population buys online and as we’ve seen during the COVID-19 pandemic, there are a lot of benefits,” Dzodan shared. “The model for Facily is that we let people get together so they can place bulk orders directly to... View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
hugely popular, fan-created site; or, conversely, he could take it over and make it an official marketing channel for the company. Coke was already revisiting its social media policies, with the Diet Coke & Mentos user-generated video incident View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
No matter how many brilliant thinkers a company may employ in-house, sometimes the most innovative solution to a problem can be found from seeking answers outside–from the crowd. “Crowds appear to reliably produce cheaper, faster, and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
to each strategy. By "inviting in the lions" to critique your idea—and being prepared for them—you'll capture busy people's attention, help them grasp your proposal's value, and secure their commitment to implementing the solution. The book presents a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
says Bond, who, prior to her Motown career, served as a financial analyst for several corporations and investment firms. "The songs are as fresh today as they were 25 years ago." Candace Bond, vice president of catalog development and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
Visit Dean Nohria's page Watch Dean Nohria at Fall Reunion (LEFA login required) Fresh out of a highly competitive engineering school in Mumbai, 22-year-old Nitin Nohria aspired to pursue his interest in business, earn an MBA in America,... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
who design, build, and maintain our buildings can have a major impact on our health. Ever feel tired during a meeting? That’s because most offices and conference rooms are not bringing in enough fresh air. When that door opens, it... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
of the money raised to buy meals from local restaurants, has donated more than 5,000 meals. Recently they have expanded across the United States using DoorDash in areas without delivery volunteers and partnered with the USDA to deliver View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
analysis but by values. Chainsaw Al Dunlap, a real person with a Hollywood moniker, told us that a dollar earned by killing a job was just as valuable as one earned by producing a valuable product, and Wall Street was seduced, even though... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
worked fresh out of college as a management trainee. "The first thing they told us was, ‘The good news is that despite the big reengineering effort, you guys are safe. The bad news is that you're going to help us do it, and get to our... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
more than 2 billion are malnourished, even though we produce enough food today to feed everyone. The carbon footprint of food waste totals 3.3 billion metric tons, enough to rank as the third-largest country in the world in greenhouse gas... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
pollution on local fauna. That evening, just up the hill in the high-ceilinged dining room of Laurel House, those same children will eat a meal served by a recovering opioid addict whom Marietta hired fresh out of a treatment program.... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
commercial innovation in chemistry, advanced materials, and agro‐sciences. But if Dow's long history of innovation is impressive, the greatest change in the past few years has been the company's use of innovation to reinforce its commitment to sustainability. In 1996,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
strategic reorientations, we conducted an inductive, comparative case of software-based financial advisors. The ventures pursued parallel reorientations and produced comparable end products but diverged conspicuously in managing audiences... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
effective December 31, 1999. The true story of the Canal upends the more conventional tale of U.S. triumphalism and its shepherding of one of the largest infrastructure works ever built. First, the Canal produced great economic dividends... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace